The Road To Life 💋 Music Video · JW

91 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 27-29 and 31-37, and 1 more place -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 114 BPM
THE ROAD TO LIFE 💋 MUSIC VIDEO · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 30, 38, 44, 45, 46, 52 and 10 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 44-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 11 sections: 58 keep time, 16 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-12.

CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDHUK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Road To Life 💋 Music Video?

114 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is The Road To Life 💋 Music Video hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Road To Life 💋 Music Video?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 30, 38, 44, 45, 46, 52 and 10 more.

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